Callow Oils Blog

We are delighted to say that once again, we won the “Best Tradestand” trophy at this years Burwarton Show.

We had a great day there and took a record amount of orders.  It was great to see all of you that joined us on our stand for a drink.

We are running a competition to win a family ticket to the Burwarton Show on Thursday 5th August – to be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is e-mail louisa@callowoils.com with how many goals you think England will score in the World Cup. Entries to close on Monday 14th June

Shelley, being presented with her trophy and cheque for £250.00 after being runner up in Young Employee of the Year

We are delighted to say that our Transport Manager(ess !) Shelley Carey was runner up at the Young Employee of the Year awards in Harrogate last week. She came away with a trophy and a cheque for £250.00 – well done Shelley – very well deserved

A little known fact – The latest Retail Market Survey shows that, after a slight rise in 2008, the number of forecourts in the UK has fallen from 9,283 to a new low of 9,013 in 2009. The all time high was in 1967 when there were 39,958 forecourts in the UK.

Our credit control lady, Sarah Fanner came out with a classic today. We have some workers on site and they are using a cherry picker to reach the top of our fuel tanks. Sarah asked Steve why they call them cherry pickers and Steve said “because they use them to pick cherries”, to which Sarah replied “I may be blonde but i’m not that stupid” !!!!!!

Two lots of good news to report. Firstly, Helen Needham finished third in her Ladies Charity Sweepstake race at the Cheltenham Festival – a huge achievement and in total all of the riders raised in excess of £120000 for Cancer Research.
Secondly, Shelley Carey has been chosen as one of the three UK finalists for Young Employee of the Year. She will be interviewed by a panel at the FPS show in Harrogate and the winner will receive their trophy and prize money at the dinner on the 22nd April – we wish her the best of luck

We have been fortunate enough today to have been sampling some fantastic ice cream (seems a bit weird in February but we are looking for a local company to supply our Chaddesley Garage !). We sampled Churchfields Farmhouse from Droitwich Orange and Grand marnier, rich chocolate, summer strawberry, midnight mint, butterscotch burst and rum & raisin and we can report that it was exceptional !

Cheltenham Racecourse today announced the names of the twelve riders that will take part in the Festival ladies Charity Sweepstake in aid of Cancer Research UK. The flat race, over one mile and five furlongs takes place on Thursday 18th March at 5.15pm and all monies raised are to be donated to Cancer Research UK (minimum of £5000.00 per rider.
The big news here at Callows is that our very own Helen Needham has been chosen to ride ! All she needs to do now is find a suitable mount……

If anyone is interested in donating then this can be done on www.justgiving.com/helen-needham.

Our new rep, Neil, came to us from his previous job of selling animal feeds so oil is quite new to him. Today he summed it up as “oil prices are a bit like my blood pressure, a bit up and down but mainly up…” Didn’t take him long to adjust to the world of oil buying and selling !